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23,400 (2015) Website. www .nshealth .ca. The Nova Scotia Health Authority is a provincial health authority serving Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the largest employer in the province, with more than 23,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and 7,000 volunteers working from 45 different facilities. [1] Its largest hospital is the Halifax Infirmary which ...
IWK Health Centre. / 44.637639; -63.58425. IWK Health is a major women's and children's (pediatric) hospital and trauma centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia that provides care to maritime youth, children and women from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and beyond. The IWK is the largest facility in Atlantic Canada caring for children ...
The Victoria General Hospital was founded in 1867, when the City of Halifax and the provincial government renamed the existing City and Provincial Hospital at the same location. The City and Provincial Hospital had been built in 1859 on a swampy field near South Park Street, after years of debate and fundraising among the city’s medical and ...
In 2015 it was merged into the new, province-wide Nova Scotia Health Authority. Service [ edit ] Capital Health was responsible for delivering core health services in the Halifax Regional Municipality and in the Municipality of the District of West Hants , an area consisting of over 400,000 residents, or 40% of the provincial population.
The Nova Scotia Hospital, known locally as The NS or Mount Hope, is a psychiatric hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority, it is the province's largest and oldest mental health facility. Co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell [1] and Dorothea Dix, it opened in 1856 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane and ...
Cumberland RegionalHealth Care Centre. / 45.8041; -64.1968. Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre is a hospital near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located next to Highway 104 in the rural community of Upper Nappan, Cumberland Regional serves residents of Cumberland County .
Emergency Health Services ( EHS) is a branch of the Nova Scotia Department of Health tasked with providing emergency medical services. It is also responsible for transportation of patients between hospitals and medical facilities. At present, all ground ambulance and air ambulance service in Nova Scotia is contracted by EHS to Emergency Medical ...
The Dartmouth General Hospital is an acute care hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a 24-hour emergency, inpatient medical, surgical and critical care facility that has been operating since 1976. It serves approximately 120,000 people in Dartmouth and the eastern Halifax Regional Municipality. It is located on Pleasant Street ...